The power of News Corp

The front-page story in last week’s Satur­day Pa­per in­cluded a quote from a Mur­doch source, “What­ever else you might say about News Corp, we can see which way the wind is blow­ing.” Well, per­haps not if it goes to wind tur­bines, or cre­ates un­prece­dented de­struc­tion be­cause of cli­mate change. How­ever, as that story shows, politi­cians do dance to the News Corp theme. Both Lib­eral Na­tional Party lead­ers in New South Wales and Vic­to­ria are now de­cry­ing the mess cre­ated by pop­u­la­tion growth in cities, some­thing only re­cently prop­a­gated by News Corp jour­nals.